DRAWING WITH LIGHT – SCENOGRAMS AND LUMINOGRAMS:
a workshop for students led by artist Marta Djourina
Artist Talk:
Wednesday, March 18, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Kreativni hub PROSTOR, Plančićeva 2, Split
Workshop:
Scenograms:
Friday, March 20, 2026 at 10:00 AM
(the expected duration of the workshop is approximately 4 hours, with the possibility of a longer duration depending on individual needs)
University of Split – Academy of Arts, building of the Department of Visual Culture and Visual Arts and the Department of Painting,
Ulica Nikole Tesle 12, Split
Luminograms + photo walk:
Saturday, March 21, 2026 at 10:00 AM
(the expected duration of the workshop is approximately 4 hours, with the possibility of a longer duration depending on individual needs)
Public space (the meeting point will be announced later)
Pop-up exhibition of works created during the workshop:
Friday, March 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Gallery PROSTOR, Plančićeva 2, Split
The workshop is intended for students of the Visual Arts Department of the University of Split – Academy of Arts (Visual Communication Design, Film and Video, Sculpture, Conservation and Restoration, Visual Culture and Visual Arts, Painting).
Works produced during the workshop will be presented at a pop-up exhibition at Gallery PROSTOR. An artist talk will also be held prior to the workshop. Registration is required to participate due to the limited number of places.
The workshop is led by visual artist Marta Djourina (Bulgaria/Germany), whose practice explores light as a subject, a tool, and an object of research. Working with large-format analog photographic paper, she transforms the photo lab into a performative stage, using various natural and artificial light sources—from bioluminescence to flashlights and lasers—as well as long exposures to “draw” on the paper’s surface. By combining photographic and painterly gestures, her work balances precision and unpredictability. She redefines photography as a physical act and a trace of movement through time.
Applications for the workshop should be sent to: lstojīcev@umas.hr, no later than Thursday, March 19, 2026 (please include full name, mobile phone number, department, and year of study).
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
In this two-day workshop, we will explore photography without a camera. On the first day, participants will create scanograms using a flatbed scanner, experimenting with layering, movement, and digital distortion. On the second day, during a photographic walk through Split, they will create luminograms—camera-less images produced by directly exposing photographic paper to sunlight. Working with found materials and transparent foils, participants will literally draw and paint with light.
No prior experience is required. All photographic materials are provided. The workshop will be held in English.
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP LEADER
Marta Djourina (born in 1991 in Sofia) holds a BA in Art History from Humboldt University of Berlin and an MA from the Technical University of Berlin, and studied Fine Arts at UdK Berlin. Since 2024, she has been an artist-researcher at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, and since 2020 she has been a visiting lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Her work has been presented in numerous international exhibitions, including recent shows at MNAHA Luxembourg, Lage Egal Brussels, Haus am Kleistpark (Berlin), Sofia Arsenal – Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, ICA-Sofia, Berlinische Galerie – Museum of Modern Art, FeldbuschWiesnerRudolph (Berlin), among others. Her works are held in public and private collections such as the Berlinische Galerie, the Eskenazi Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana University (USA), IBB Berlin, and EiB Luxembourg, among others.
She is the recipient of the EMOP Arendt Award for Photography (2025), the Berlin State Grant for Publication Presentation (2023), the AArtist in Residence Award of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (2022), the Marianne Brandt Award for Photography (2022), the BAZA Award (2021), and the Eberhard Roters Scholarship (Prussian Sea Trading Foundation, awarded at Berlinische Galerie, 2020), among others.
In 2023, she spent two months at RU Residency Unlimited in New York (as part of BAZA 2021) and three months at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris (ADP Artist Development Program of the EiB Institute in Luxembourg). In 2024, she continued expanding her project Fluid Contact during a residency at the Landskrona Foto Museum in Sweden, and in 2025 in Rostock in collaboration with the University of Rostock on the occasion of the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. In 2024, she published her first comprehensive monograph with DISTANZ Verlag Berlin.
This activity is co-financed by the European Union through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NextGenerationEU), as part of institutional research project KUZ: Contact – Art in the Community, IP-UNIST-56 of the Arts Academy in Split, the Creative Europe programme (project Craftwork 4.0 All Culture Hub Croatia), and the Culture Moves Europe programme.
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